Anti-Union Bill Gets Repub Backing

After an hour of legal arguments about complicated legal problems with the bill, the Senate State Affairs Committee has voted 7-2, along party lines, to approve SB 1007, legislation targeting labor unions by prohibiting them from subsidizing wages to aid contractors in winning bids. “The reason we brought this bill is to level the playing field,” declared Sen. Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth, who is co-sponsoring the bill with Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, and nine other GOP lawmakers. “This bill is about freedom, it’s about freedom to protect our workers and our workforce. This simply adds to and enables us to enforce Right to Work”/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .

Question: Are unions such a factor in Idaho that Republicans need to pass a legally questionable bill to shore up the Right to Work law?